Help with install

[anaylor01]

I have a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder with a dual din Stereo/Cd player. I but a new dual din gps stereo. Can I just cut the wires from the white plugs and wire them directly to the harness that came with the stereo? I need a diagram explaining the colors of the wire.

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[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

There should be a vehicle specific harness. Don't start cutting stuff. Look it up on crutchfeild.

 

[mrpep]

Yes, harnesses are made specifically for a model car and plug into your factory harness so you don't have to cut your factory wires . Good luck

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[anaylor01]

I did cut them off and everything is working fine except for the steering wheel control but from what I understand the Nissan steering wheel control is done somehow different and the installer guys say they can't get them to work either. One guy quoted me $350 and another said $600. So I didn't by myself and bought a antennae adapter for 9 bucks and a crimper for 8 bucks so a total of $17 dollars.

 

[JohnKuthe]

There should be a vehicle specific harness. Don't start cutting stuff. Look it up on crutchfeild.

Or just go to Best Buy and ask too. First thing my installer guy (with his experience!) did for me was we went up to Best Buy and got a generic Chrysler radio wiring adaptor for which my installer guy spliced all the wires (wire color codes matched perfectly!) for it to the Alpine CDE-153BT plug in adaptor to it! Got my HU wired and functioning first try! That's what experience at car audio gets you,. the easy way to do things. I was busy trying to figure out which wires for my Chrysler radio plug and which wires to the plug in adaptor for my CDE-153BT I would have to splice and connect, when there was an existing generic Chrysler plug in adapter! Which of course no one here would tell me about, because they like keeping all their car audio knowledge from experience secret so they can feel better about themselves!

That's what I pay my installer guy for, as well as his labor to do stuff for me, and NO ego! He tells me to ignore all you jerks here too.

John Kuthe...

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Totally ignore us and buy a DSP you have no idea how to use and a bunch of RCAs you don't need. Good call Craigslist

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Or just go to Best Buy and ask too. First thing my installer guy (with his experience!) did for me was we went up to Best Buy and got a generic Chrysler radio wiring adaptor for which my installer guy spliced all the wires (wire color codes matched perfectly!) for it to the Alpine CDE-153BT plug in adaptor to it! Got my HU wired and functioning first try! That's what experience at car audio gets you,. the easy way to do things. I was busy trying to figure out which wires for my Chrysler radio plug and which wires to the plug in adaptor for my CDE-153BT I would have to splice and connect, when there was an existing generic Chrysler plug in adapter! Which of course no one here would tell me about, because they like keeping all their car audio knowledge from experience secret so they can feel better about themselves!
That's what I pay my installer guy for, as well as his labor to do stuff for me, and NO ego! He tells me to ignore all you jerks here too.

John Kuthe...

You are killing me man...

 

[Flipper245]

Or just go to Best Buy and ask too. First thing my installer guy (with his experience!) did for me was we went up to Best Buy and got a generic Chrysler radio wiring adaptor for which my installer guy spliced all the wires (wire color codes matched perfectly!) for it to the Alpine CDE-153BT plug in adaptor to it! Got my HU wired and functioning first try! That's what experience at car audio gets you,. the easy way to do things. I was busy trying to figure out which wires for my Chrysler radio plug and which wires to the plug in adaptor for my CDE-153BT I would have to splice and connect, when there was an existing generic Chrysler plug in adapter! Which of course no one here would tell me about, because they like keeping all their car audio knowledge from experience secret so they can feel better about themselves!
That's what I pay my installer guy for, as well as his labor to do stuff for me, and NO ego! He tells me to ignore all you jerks here too.

John Kuthe...

So your advice is, find an installer on Craigslist, don't do it yourself(which is why this forum is here to start with), and ignore the people who have been doing this for decades? If the car audio industry was full of people like you we would all still have 8-track players in our car listening to quadrophonic sound. Drop some more acid loser!